[kwlug-disc] Freedom Box?

Colin K colin at void11.com
Sun Aug 21 02:00:51 EDT 2011


I provide wireless / ethernet network  access to several people who do who
knows what on my connection I want to plug a filter between my internet and
all of us I don't care necessarily what they do thats their business I just
don't want to get attention from it.  So something like this will be highly
anticipated.  I was actually looking at the memory footprint of Peerblock on
one of my machines... yeah its pretty painful for memory.  Its looking more
and more like its going to be a pfsense box for me in the mean time.

On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 7:27 PM, unsolicited <unsolicited at swiz.ca> wrote:

> Colin K wrote, On 08/20/2011 6:55 PM:
>
>> Archive.org to the rescure?
>> Link<http://web.archive.org/**web/20100222030154/http://www.**
>> bluetack.co.uk/forums/index.**php<http://web.archive.org/web/20100222030154/http://www.bluetack.co.uk/forums/index.php>
>> >
>>
>>  from JULY 15, 2009 Snapshot
>>
>> Software packages such as PeerGuardian, PeerBlock(forked from PG), Moblock
>> (linux variant) these all use the bluetack lists. Afaik unless they pull
>> from here http://ipblocklist.com/ im not sure but either way they block
>> crap
>> tonnes of ip's.  Wish I could get a router to filter this stuff right now
>> not later.
>>
>
> You can. You can do it with the linux router you have right now. (You just
> probably don't want to. Below.)
>
> Have used PeerGuardian / PeerBlock, for years. Happily so. Installed iplist
> / ipblock in the last couple of days. Seems to be working well. (One
> buggette, one user interface issue. One issue left uninvestigated thus far.)
>
> All pull from bluetack, which, if I read correctly, is more of a central
> point of retrieval, than entirely a source of the lists. I believe they pull
> their lists from iplists, or vice versa, I forget which / get confused.
> Upshot - either gets you the other and to the same place.
>
> The iplist forum (or moblock adjacent references there or somewhere) note
> router attempts. The problem being the 16MB of memory consumed by the lists
> - with limited router memory. Although intuitive, today, didn't see any
> references to people with usb drives connected to them (the router) trying.
>
> You can get at least part of where you're talking in the mean time, though.
> Be it running a web proxy and having it suck in the lists, downloading a
> hosts file (dynamic update mechanism undiscovered to date) or loading a
> static 'high-level' list into openwrt's iptables.
>
> Or running iplist everywhere, all sucking up the same lists.
>
> Not point of traversal, unless your linux box is your gateway, but the
> limited hardware power of typical OpenWRT devices seems insurmountable. I'll
> guess pfsense will take advantage of the lists, if you have one in place.
>
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